Characteristic performance of wild fire puts the mayor of LA in a political hole

We can see the collapse of one of the highest -ranking civil servants in California, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.

Ever since the wild fires began to throw in the neighborhoods of Los Angeles County, Bass is late and late with a dollar, as it is said in response to the old saying.

It began with the inconvenient fact that when fires broke out, Bass was thousands of miles in Ghana, attending the new president of the country. This could have just been an unfortunate coincidence, but it traveled after the National Meteorological Service issued sharp warnings that Santa Anna’s high and hot winds were creating “critical fire conditions”.

Later bass accuses others of not warning her of the danger, but as Los Angeles Times Steve Lopez’s columnist writes“She had to call me. I had all the information I needed, along with a garden hose, as well as everyone else. “

Bass rushed back to Los Angeles on a military plane, but broke questions about her absence.

AS Too than The Times“Standing at the city’s emergency center center, the reporter wanted to know: What did the bass had to say to the critics who wanted her to withdraw?

“Bass, standing with a clutch of urban and district officials, promised” deep diving “in everything that went wrong. With the fires still raging, she made it clear that she was done with the question.

“” I answered him in the morning. I answered it now. She will not answer again, “She said to the room full of reporters.”

Although the whole press conference was published on the Facebook county page, the questions and answers segment was missed from the Bass page and this was not an isolated case, Times reports.

“On a Facebook mayor page, a video from a press conference on an evening fire on January 8 also excludes Q and a segment. The same applies to a wild fire briefing, published in the morning of January 10th. “

In contrast, everything said in news conferences is published by district officers-suggesting that bass is more concerned about its image than to communicate with its voters.

In the first days of the wild fire crisis, Los Angeles fire department chief Christine Crowley accused Bass of insufficient fire financing, and the mayor accused Crowley of failing to alert her to the upcoming fire danger.

Later, after “Times her bill for details against the chief and fired her.

This affected a debate about whether Crowley was tempted or preserved for poor leadership. Anyway, she added to the image of a mayor who was ignited – as well as media reports of discord between the bass and the members of the Board of the Supervisory Authorities of Los Angeles County.

It is a well -worn axiom that a political career is often performed or destroyed by the way offices owners are presented during crises.

Gavard Gavin Newsom eagerly took command during the Covid-19 pandemic, with almost daily videos. However, many of the actions of the administration have turned, as exclusion of schools and repayment billions of dollars cheat claims For unemployment benefits.

Uncharacteristic, Newsom remains in the background over wild fires, leaving bass and district supervisors to share the media spotlight while it concentrates on President of Sweet Talk Donald Trump to provide wild fire help.

In a sense, the unstable bass performance is not surprising. Before becoming mayor, she spent her entire political career as a country or federal legislator, positions that require the construction of consensus rather than take action, especially during crises.

Bass is ready for re -election next year and if she wants another term, she will start in a hole that dug herself.